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Tule surma suota myöten

Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus

In English: Come, Death, along the bog (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems123
Verses711
Collection places59
Collected1850s to 1930s
CollectorsForsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Sulo Haltsonen · Ulla Mannonen · Lauri Laiho · Toini Kohvakka · Olavi Pennanen · Väinö Salminen · Toini Kantele · Jorma Väänänen · Juho Jäkälä

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The archive’s description

Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.

Tule surma suota myöten (Sakkolasta), tauti talvitietä myöten. Surmalle sukat tekisin, tauville talvikintaat, kalsut kalman tyttärelle.

Jatkosäkeet yhteisiä Tule surma sukkinesi -aiheen kanssa: surmaa pyydetään viemään talosta lapsi (harvoin myös ukko tai akka) ja (VI) kehitellään ajatusta kelkasta tai säkistä, jolla surma vie lapsen pois. Surmalla saattaa olla mukanaan myös kurikka, vrt. Tule surma vastaan. Rajanveto lyriikan Sukat surmalle lupasin -aiheeseen on toisinaan äärimmäisen vaikeaa, vrt. erityisesti IV3:3688,3918; VI2:6728; VII.

* Vain alkusäe, jatkona Tule surma vastaan.

Where it was collected

Collection places of the poems, with the number of poems of this type from each. A place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from.

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1850s2
1880s3
1890s23
1900s9
1910s16
1920s5
1930s65

Example poems

The opening verse of one poem from each of the ten places with the most poems of this type: the first such poem in the archive’s order. Each links to the whole poem. A poem can be filed under several types, so its opening verse may belong to another song.

Other types the same poems are filed under

The archive can file one poem under several types. These are the types most often given to poems of this type, with the number of poems they share.

TypePoems in common
Tule surma vastaan25
Tule surma sukkinesi5
Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan4
Tule uni ulkoa4
Ei se surma suorin tehnyt4
Sukat surmalle lupasin2
Nuku, nuku, nurmilintu2

Content-based similar types

Several methods each rank the song types whose poems resemble this type's poems; the combined ranking merges their lists. The first 20 are listed here.

  1. Tule surma sukkinesi (Come, Death, in Your Stockings)
  2. Hiihtävä surma (Death on skis)
  3. Sukat surmalle lupasin (Stockings Pledged to Death)
  4. Elävän mieli eteensä (The Living One Looks Ahead)
  5. Tule surma vastaan (Come, Death, to meet us)
  6. Nälän kulku (The Course of Hunger)
  7. Ei se surma suorin tehnyt (Death did not act directly)
  8. Surma, tule suota myöten, tapa anoppi, appi (Death, come across the bog, kill mother-in-law and father-in-law)
  9. Hiiri metsähän menevi (Mouse goes to the forest)
  10. Sikasilla (Your Pig)
  11. Tule uniukko meille (Come to Us, Sandman)
  12. Iso sika (Big pig)
  13. Kun tulisi Nurmi-Tuomas (If Nurmi-Tuomas Would Come)
  14. Nurmi-Tuomas (Nurmi-Tuomas (Thomas of the Meadow))
  15. Tule uni uunin päältä (Come sleep from atop the stove)
  16. Kuoleman enteet (Death Omens)
  17. Vanha mies variksen ampu (The Old Man Shot the Crow)
  18. Tauti tappoi, sota hävitti (Disease killed, war destroyed)
  19. Isäntä hirressä, emäntä orressa (Master on the gallows, mistress on the roost)
  20. Uni ulkoa kysyy (Sleep asks from outside)

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Sources: the type’s name, filing and description come from the SKVR type index of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS); the counts, places, decades and collectors are counted from the poems on RunoVerse.